How to Tape a Stick

Taping the blade of your hockey stick

Kyle of Pure Hockey goes through the steps of taping your hockey stick and shows a couple of different way of taping the stick blade.

In the first video, Kyle from Pure Hockey shows you a couple of different ways to tape the blade of your ice hockey stick. This is going to help control the puck while stick handling and shooting, as well as protecting the stick blade from ice, water and wear from pucks. In the second video Kyle shows you how to take a knob on the butt end of your hockey stick. He uses clear tape as a final tip and trick to protect the palm of your hockey gloves, but this is an optional step.

Pure Hockey shows you a couple of different ways to tape the knob or butt-end of your ice hockey stick.hey guys Kyle here with Pure Hockey dot com here and today we're going to do a little video about a couple different ways to actually tape your stick up and we're hoping this will be helpful if you're you know a new parent or a parent with a a new hockey player or just somebody who is trying to experiment with some some different ways of taping your stick One quick basic way I'll go through first to do the knob on your stick is what I did here is cut the roll in half and to make a little bit of a knob on the top and get rid of all these little shreds here and it's kind of where your comfort level is far as how big the knob is and I like something I personally like it a little bit smaller and find it easier to hold in my hand so then we'll do here's go back to the full piece of tape and kind of run over that one time smooth all that down and then start going down the shaft and again as far as how far to go down it's all all up to you on personal preference there are some guys it'll only go to right here and there you know I've seen some guys that want to go halfway on the shaft with with their with their knob so that's kinda really really simple basic way just to give you a little bit a grip on the stick And another one I'll show you guys is a is actually what I do and and that's putting a little bit of a twirl or ribbon to the grip and I start with the full width of the tape up top just do up a couple of little laps around the top and then what I'll do is stretch the tape out like that and tear it and then can I just twirl all this up and then start from here and just go around down and tear that off here and then just gooing to cover it back up with the white tape so once again until just a couple of some top gear and then start going down I'm just making sure we keep it even going all the way around and covering up and not make any gaps or anything like that up and that's kind of your basic grip with a little bit of rib there and one again that's as far as how far you go down it could be this far could be that far its and up to you and then a one little personal touch that I usually do because I got really really sick over ruining gloved palms as I like take a little bit clear tape and actually just run right over this nice and tight because when I find that there's plenty of grip just for having the rib here there I don't necessarily need that much and one it saves your palms on the gloves are not tearing through quite as often and the other thing is one thing I found every time you tape your stick you know it gets really like sticky you can't move your hand quite as well and then as it wears an it gets you get a little bit better better movement and it feels okay but when it when you get a first as real real sticky so I found they do this and every time i'd have a stake a brand new or it's been used and I've been using it for five months it still has kind of the same feel the same grip to it and it's not a little bit sticky now and less sticy then and then it saves my gloves a little bit too so those are just a couple basic ways to tape the knob your hockey stick so you guys have any a have any ideas and anything you use shoot us a comment and let us know what you think or what you do personally